William Blake Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Pity Quotes

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

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Then the Parson might preach, & drink, & sing, And we'd be as happy as birds in the spring; And modest dame Lurch, who is always at Church, Would not have bandy children, nor fasting, nor birch.

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Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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A dog starv'd at the master's gate Predicts the ruin of the State. A horse misus'd upon the road Calls to heaven for human blood. Each outcry of the hunted hare A fibre from the brain does tear, A skylark wounded on the wing, A cherubim does cease to sing.

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I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

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A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

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He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.

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Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.

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The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

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What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

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The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

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Without minute neatness of execution, the sublime cannot exist! Grandeur of ideas is founded on precision of ideas.

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Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public Records to be true.

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The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

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The moon, like a flower in heaven's high bower, with silent delight sits and smiles on the night.

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